History of medicine, the body, surgery, disability, American health
policy, bioethics, public health; gender and health; history and
sociology of medicalization

Research Interests:

Social and cultural history of U.S. medicine and surgery in the 19th and 20th
centuries, disability history, war studies, gender studies, as well as
the history of bioethics, sexuality, and health care policy.

Books:Civil
Disabilities: Citizenship, Theory, and the Body,
co-edited with Nancy Hirschmann (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania), forthcoming.